On 12/20/2011 08:28 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Dan Ritter wrote:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote/
There you go. Everything except a different name.
The description:
Track your Senators' and Representative's votes by e-mail
Each week (that Congress is in session) you will receive:
o Key votes by your two Senators and U.S. Representative.
o Links to send e-mail to your members of Congress using pre-addressed
forms.
o Upcoming votes for your review and a chance to offer e-mail input
before they vote.
Use this weekly vote monitor to track the decisions made by your
elected officials on key issues.
...sounds spot on. Just filling in your zip code and email. (Note that
the site accepts an email address containing a "+" character, but
doesn't escape it correctly if you hit the edit link. I reported the bug.)
I signed up. We'll see how it goes.
There's also opencongress.org. They have a "money trail" for many bills
that shows the supporting/adversarial organizations for a bill, and how
much money representatives received from those organizations, and how
the rep. voted (this example is the patent reform act from earlier this
year):
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1249/show
The money doesn't tell the whole story though; for that bill, the "Top
recipients for ALL supporting interest groups" almost unanimously voted
"aye", while the "Top recipients for ALL opposing interest groups" has
the top 4 senators and top 2 representatives voting "aye" as well. So
that is likely a case where political and other pressure outweighed raw
campaign contributions.
While researching H.R. 1249 I found a site that had the republican and
democratic caucus' memos about that bill (summary of the bill,
party-line reasons to vote for it / against it). Can't seem to be able
to find it now though...too bad, because it was interesting.
Matt
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